CHAPTER 56 Evaluation of Patients for Epilepsy Surgery Costas Michaelides, Garth Rees Cosgrove, Andrew J. Cole Up to 40% of epilepsy patients have medication-resistant or medically intractable seizures.1 As many…
CHAPTER 267 Principles of Translation of Biologic Therapies in Spinal Cord Injury James Guest Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. —Soren Kierkegaard The function…
CHAPTER 264 Overview and Historical Considerations Volker K.H. Sonntag, Dennis G. Vollmer, Christopher I. Shaffrey Spinal disorders have been recognized as a serious affliction of humans since ancient times. Early…
CHAPTER 32 Cranioplasty Robert G. Whitmore, Shabbar F. Danish, M. Sean Grady Skull defects and craniofacial bone abnormalities that require reconstruction are common in a variety of neurosurgical procedures. From…
CHAPTER 79 Pallidal Interventions for Parkinson’s Disease Philip A. Starr The basal ganglia are a collection of subcortical nuclei involved in the focusing and scaling of movement. These nuclei participate…
CHAPTER 30 Advantages and Limitations of Cranial Endoscopy Jeroen R. Coppens, William T. Couldwell Endoscopy was first used intracranially in the treatment of hydrocephalus at the beginning of the 20th…
CHAPTER 111 Brain Tumors during Pregnancy Alessandro Olivi, Mohamad Bydon, Shaan M. Raza When a brain tumor is diagnosed in a pregnant woman, it is a dramatic event for her,…
CHAPTER 108 Clinical Features Neurology of Brain Tumor and Paraneoplastic Disorders William R. Shapiro This chapter focuses on three subjects: the pathogenesis of signs and symptoms of brain tumors, the…
CHAPTER 136 Epidermoid, Dermoid, and Neurenteric Cysts Wael Hassaneen, Raymond Sawaya Recent developments in understanding the embryogenesis of complex dysraphic malformations suggest that the three central nervous system (CNS) entities…
CHAPTER 72 Anatomy and Synaptic Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia Yoland Smith Our knowledge of the functional anatomy of the basal ganglia has increased greatly over the past decades as…
